SALIENT FEATURES

1. All adult persons residing in villages and 'C' class Municipal council areas are covered under this programme. However, a person who is more than 15 years old but less than 18 years can also be given employment under this scheme if there is no earning member in the family.

2. The guarantee is given at the district level. The person demanding the work has no choice of particular work. The guarantee is to provide work anywhere in the district, though operationally works are normally provided within the panchayat samiti area. As far as possible, work is provided to the employment seeker within a radius of 5 km of his residence.

3. The works are implemented through various Government Departments such as Irrigation, Public Works, Agriculture, Forest and local bodies, viz., Zilla Parishads. They are called implementing agencies.

4. The employment seeker has to get his name registered under this scheme with the Registering authority of the village, i.e. Talathis / Gramsevak by filling Form 1 prescribed under rules. Thereafter he / she has to ask for employment under Employment Guarantee Scheme from the Samiti Officer (i.e. Tahsildar) or from Registering authority in the concerned villages by filling up Form 4. The Samiti officer has to provide work under the scheme within 15 days after the receipt of application in Form 4, i.e. demand for work. The employment seeker is required to declare that he will work for a continuous period of at least 30 days on the work to which the Samiti Officer has directed. The Samiti Officer directs the employment seeker to the implementing agency of the work by giving the employment seeker directive in Form 7. The implementing agency has to employ the person. On the work, if the person presents himself on work within 7 days of the receipt of the letter issued by the Samiti Officer. Failure to provide employment creates the liability on the State Government for payment of unemployment allowance at the rate of Rs 10 per day.